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Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame
Return to Glory Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame Author:Alan Grant When Notre Dame chose Ty Willingham as their new football coach at the end of the lackluster 2001 season, few believed he could turn around the underperforming team. Willingham did that and much more, restoring Notre Dame to the national spotlight and giving the Irish's millions of fans a sense of pride and mission for the first time in years. A... more »long with doubling the team's number of wins, Willingham vigorously rebuffed the conventional wisdom that the dearth of black coaches in college and professional sports was due to a lack of available talent. The first black coach ever hired by Notre Dame in any sport, he became the biggest sports story of 2002 and gave emphatic notice that he is a major force to be reckoned with in the years ahead. In RETURN TO GLORY, Alan Grant, a young sportswriter who played football under Willingham at Stanford, takes readers inside Notre Dame's program as no one has seen it before. He masterfully recreates, week by week, the drama of a team playing above all expectations and the maneuverings of a master strategist facing the biggest challenge of his life. Notre Dame fans and general readers caught up by Notre Dame's storybook season will make RETURN TO GLORY the best-read football book of the year.« less